Selected canterbury tales
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At the Tabard Inn in Southwark, in the London of the late 1300s, a band of men and women from all walks of life have gathered to begin a pilgrimage to the shrine of Thomas à Becket at Canterbury. To relieve the tedium of the journey, the host of the inn proposes that each of the pilgrims tell a favorite story, promising that the best storyteller will be treated to a fi ne dinner on the group's return to Southwark.
So begins one of the earliest masterpieces of English literature, a collection of stories as much prized for the portraits of its story tellers as for the stories they tell portraits that reveal much of the rich social fabric of 14th-century England. Now three of the most popular tales along with the charming General Prologue have been selected for this edition: The Knight's Tale, The Miller's Prologue and Tale, and The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale.
Animated by Chaucer's sly humor, flair for characterization and wise humanity, the stories have been recast into modern verse that captures the lively spirit of the originals. Highly entertaining, they represent an excellent entree to the rest of The Canterbury Tales
and to the pleasures of medieval poetry in general. A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 21 oktober 1994
Aantal pagina's: 144
Illustraties: Nee
Hoofdauteur: Geoffrey Chaucer
Tweede Auteur: V. A. Kolve
Co Auteur: Glending Olson
Hoofdillustrator: Trina Schart Hyman
Tweede Illustrator: Charles D Ellis
Hoofdredacteur: M. Murphy
Tweede Redacteur: Glending Olson
Hoofduitgeverij: Dover Publications Inc.
Eerste Vertaler: J. U. Nicolson
Extra groot lettertype: Nee
Product breedte: 132 mm
Product hoogte: 10 mm
Product lengte: 210 mm
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 125 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 21 mm
Verpakking lengte: 205 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 448 g
eWaste: Nee
EAN: 9780486282411